stour

Meanings

1. Tall; big; stout.
2. Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.
3. Bold; audacious.
4. Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
5. Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
6. Inflexible, stiff.
7. Resolute; unyielding.

1. A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.

1. Severely; strongly.

1. A stake.
2. A round of a ladder.
3. A stave in the side of a wagon.
4. A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.

1. An armed battle or conflict.
2. A time of struggle or stress.
3. Tumult, commotion; confusion.

1. Alternative form of stoor.

1. A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
2. A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
3. A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
4. A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
5. A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.

Etymology

From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”). Cognates Akin to Scots stour (“tall, large, great, stout”), Saterland Frisian stor (“great, many”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian stor (“large, great”), Icelandic stórr (“large, tall”), Polish stary (“old, ancient”), Albanian stër- (“big, huge”). Compare also stoor, steer, stately.